Why did I ask to my house an idolater, one who pretends to believe that a crumb of bread is my God, a Papist, untrue alike to his country and to his Saviour?
When she desired it of me I knew that I was wrong to yield.

Yes;--it is you who have done it all, you, you, you;--and if she be a castaway, the weight of her soul will be doubly heavy on your own." To get out of the room, and then at the earliest possible hour of the morning out of the house, were now the objects to be attained.

That his presence had had a peculiarly evil influence on Mr.Kennedy, Phineas could not doubt; as assuredly the unfortunate man would not have been left with mastery over his own actions had his usual condition been such as that which he now displayed.

He had been told that "poor Kennedy" was mad,--as we are often told of the madness of our friends when they cease for awhile to run in the common grooves of life.

But the madman had now gone a long way out of the grooves;--so far, that he seemed to Phineas to be decidedly dangerous.